Machine learning is a branch of computer science that has the potential to transform epidemiologic sciences. Amid a growing focus on "Big Data," it offers epidemiologists new tools to tackle problems for which classical methods are not well-suited. I...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Dec 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: To analyze techniques for machine translation of electronic health records (EHRs) between long distance languages, using Basque and Spanish as a reference. We studied distinct configurations of neural machine translation systems and used d...
In today's radiology workflow, free-text reporting is established as the most common medium to capture, store, and communicate clinical information. Radiologists routinely refer to prior radiology reports of a patient to recall critical information f...
Big data, smart data, predictive analytics, and other similar terms are ubiquitous in the lay and scientific literature. However, despite the frequency of usage, these terms are often poorly understood, and evidence of their disruption to clinical ca...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2018
OBJECTIVE: To extract drug indications from a commercial drug knowledgebase and determine to what extent drug indications can discriminate between look-alike-sound-alike (LASA) drugs.
MOTIVATION: In biomedical research, chemical is an important class of entities, and chemical named entity recognition (NER) is an important task in the field of biomedical information extraction. However, most popular chemical NER methods are based o...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Apr 1, 2018
Deep learning describes a class of machine learning algorithms that are capable of combining raw inputs into layers of intermediate features. These algorithms have recently shown impressive results across a variety of domains. Biology and medicine ar...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2018
Medicine will experience many changes in the coming years because the so-called "medicine of the future" will be increasingly proactive, featuring four basic elements: predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory. Drivers for these changes...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
The field of medicine still reports errors because of insufficient knowledge or resources, work load or data not available at the right time and place, and this may be fatal for a patient. To improve the healthcare quality, a doctor needs accurate an...
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